Rage : an Alex Delaware Novel
“Troy Turner and Rand Duchay were barely teenagers when they kidnapped and murdered a younger child. Troy, a remorseless sociopath, died violently behind bars. But the hulking, slow-witted Rand managed to survive his stretch. Now, at age twenty-one, he’s emerged a haunted, rootless young man with a pressing need: to talk – once again – […]
The Historian : a Novel
“Late one night, exploring her father’s library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to “My dear and unfortunate successor,” and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of – a labyrinth where the secrets of her father’s past and her mother’s […]
Always Time to Die
Carly, a successful family historian, discovers that tracing bloodlines in New Mexico is a deadly sport when she searches for information on the state’s multimillionaire governor.
No Country for Old Men
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Seven years after Cities of the Plain brought his acclaimed Border Trilogy to a close, McCarthy returns with a mesmerizing modern-day western. In 1980 southwest Texas, Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles across several dead men, a bunch of heroin and $2.4 million in cash. The bulk […]
Pawleys Island : a Lowcountry tale
Publisher Weekly Review: Bestseller Frank’s fifth Lowcountry Tale is a lively story about friendship and family, Southern-style. On the small South Carolina barrier island that gives the book its title, semiretired attorney Abigail Thurmond spends most of her days playing golf and gossiping with her best friend, the portly, lovably aristocratic Huey Valentine. But their […]
A Wedding In December : a Novel
Publisher Weekly Review: ABig Chill?like group reunites for a 40-something wedding in this melancholy story of missed opportunities, lingering regrets and imagined alternatives by Shreve (The Last Time They Met). Bill and Bridget were sweethearts at Maine's Kidd Academy who rediscovered one another at their 25th reunion. Bridget was already divorced; Bill left his family; […]
Looking for Peyton Place
Publisher Weekly Review: With her mother deceased and her older sister suffering similar symptoms, successful 30-something novelist Annie Barnes turns detective?Erin Brokovich-style?when she reluctantly returns to her “stifling, stagnant, and cruel” New Hampshire hometown of Middle River in Delinsky’s diverting latest (after The Summer I Dared). A company town dominated by Northbrook Paper Mill, owned […]
Prodigal Summer
Barbara Kingsolver, a writer praised for her “extravagantly gifted narrative voice” (New York Times Book Review), has created with this novel a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested […]
eleven on top
Stephanie Plum has decided to quit her job as a bounty hunter. She wants something safe. She wants something normal. She’s tired of creeps, weirdos, and stalkers. Then just when she thinks she’s out, they pull her back in.
The Wonder Spot
“Nothing comes easily to Sophie Applebaum, the black sheep of her family trying to blend in with the herd. Uneasily situated between two brothers, Sophie first appears as the fulcrum and observer of her clan in “Boss of the World.” Then, at college, in “The Toy Bar,” she faces a gauntlet of challenges as best […]